Hi everyone! It's September, which means there is a new mood board challenge in the Reneabouquets Artists With an Edge Facebook Group.

In case you are new to my blog, we do a mood board challenge every month in the Reneabouquets Artists With an Edge Facebook Group. Everyone who enters a new project using items from Reneabouquets, gets entered into a chance to win a Reneabouquets prize package at the end of the month.

Here is the kick off project that I made for this months challenge.

I have used a photo from free google, from Stella de Libero.

Beautiful Board turned 2 September 1st, and this month will be a celebration of that, see below for more details. I hope moodboard will inspire you to make your own creations. Reneabouquets has a huge assortment of Beautiful Board. I really love the way it adds so much texture and depth to a page!

To make this page I applied texture paste with a stencil onto watercolor paper. I put the layers under the photo together, starting with taping on card stock under the image to make it stronger. Below that is a layer of watercolor paper, and at the bottom is corrugated cardboard.I tore off most of the paper from the surface of the cardboard, and painted it with gesso.While the gesso was wet I poured on Ultra Thick Embossing Powder, and heated it until it was just melted. I put cardboard between the layers to add dimension.

Before I added the layers to the page, I sprayed on water to an area of about 4 inches to the background watercolor paper, and brushed on pale pink Shimmerz Paint. I repeated this til the page was covered. I blotted off excess paint as needed.

I painted the paper behind the photo with colors that pulled out those of the photo.

I picked out Beautiful Board, applied gesso with a cosmetic sponge, then painted it with Shimmerz Paints, and when dry, topped it with a thick coat of Clear Rock Candy Crackle Paint.You can also see gold mica powder,and Prima Green Brocade Wax. I brushed over the finished BBoard with very watered down black ink to emphasize the crackle effect.

To add visual interest I added micro beads, glass glitter,metal glitter,distress glitter,seed beads,glass beads, pearls, Swarovski crystals,rhinestones, glass marbles,pressed flowers and leaves,lichen, strands of gauze,tulle, small pieces of iridescent wrapping paper,gold leaf,shells,metal from Reneabouquets, flowers from Reneabouquets and Prima, and bling and metal from my stash. The green ball items are from a floral Christmas spray.

Thank you so much for looking, and have a great week!

f you would like to join us for this months challenge, you can find the event here...https://www.facebook.com/events/2323947427851855/

Challenge Rules

1. Create a NEW project (on or off the page) that features ANY product carried in the Reneabouquets.com store or the Renebouquets Etsy Shop

2. Your project can be any style.

3. Add your project to the Reneqbouquets Artist with an Edge September Mood Board 2019 event by 12:00 am September 28th, 2019. Check back on the 30th to see if you have won the random drawing.

(Drawing is done on Facebook live or unedited video to ensure fairness)

4. Challenge is open to U.S. Residents and International

5. Have fun!

And now...I get to show you the prize package!!!

Guess Who Is Turning 2??!! Beautiful Board turns 2 September 1st and it will be a month long celebration with lots of Design Team Inspiration, Design Team Giveaways, RB Events, and of course the Artists With An Edge participants have early access to the monthly coupon:

SEPTEMBER COUPON:Reneabouquets  Beautiful Board Just Turned 2 And To Celebrate Here Is A Coupon For You!!

You can take 15% off  Your purchase of Reneabouquets Beautiful Board Laser Cut Chipboard (does not include Printed Beautiful Board) With

Coupon Code: BBOARDBIRTHDAY

The code is good for the Reneabouquets.com website only.

Code Must Be ALL CAPS

Coupon Codes Do Not Combine. Only 1 Coupon Code per order please. Just use your coupon (must be ALL CAPS) in the Coupon Box at checkout  and 15% will be taken off your purchase of Reneabouquets Beautiful Board (Does Not Include Printed Beautiful Board Laser Cut Chipboard). No quantity limits.

Only one coupon per order, please. Coupon Codes can not be combined.

Coupon Code:

BBOARDBIRTHDAY

Thank you to everyone here who have helped to make Beautiful Board such a success!! We work really hard to bring you a truly unique, high quality product and I just love how many artists appreciate all the hard work and choose to use it on their own art 🥰 Hugs and gratitude~ Renea Harrison  